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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 13483910, member: 128351"]Seriously, if I was walked along at Kalkriese, noticed a yellow spot on the ground and picked up an aureus, I would immediately hand it over to the local Kalkriese museum. Seriously, this is what I would do. Not only this aureus belongs in the public collection of all artefacts from this famous battlefield, but its precise find spot could lead the archaeologists to a promising sector they had not excavated yet. </p><p>In 2016 it happened in Israel. A hiker visiting an archaeological site discovered a aureus, a very rare one (2 specimen only known before this one). It was immediately turned in to the Israel Antiquities Authority. </p><p><a href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/hiker-in-israel-discovers-rare-gold-aureus-of-trajan.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/hiker-in-israel-discovers-rare-gold-aureus-of-trajan.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/hiker-in-israel-discovers-rare-gold-aureus-of-trajan.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 13483910, member: 128351"]Seriously, if I was walked along at Kalkriese, noticed a yellow spot on the ground and picked up an aureus, I would immediately hand it over to the local Kalkriese museum. Seriously, this is what I would do. Not only this aureus belongs in the public collection of all artefacts from this famous battlefield, but its precise find spot could lead the archaeologists to a promising sector they had not excavated yet. In 2016 it happened in Israel. A hiker visiting an archaeological site discovered a aureus, a very rare one (2 specimen only known before this one). It was immediately turned in to the Israel Antiquities Authority. [URL]https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/hiker-in-israel-discovers-rare-gold-aureus-of-trajan.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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